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VOL. XVIII, NO. 51. DARLINGTON, S. 0., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1891. WHOLE NUMBER 882. A Column oT News, Personal and OtK- t j ™ .. Manv j AAjdg'e, A. F. M., on W.ednesdav 1 | night of last week, the follow- MATTER3 IN AND ARb'JND FROS- PEFOUS DARLINGTON. ervwise, of Interest to Readers. Our LOCAUMEVITIES. mason,cmattlrs. DEATH BY ACCIDENT. 1 Election of Officers for St. David’s Lodge, A. F. M.—Celebration of j MR. JAMES T. MILLER, OF LANCAS St. John's Day. TER, KILLS HIMSELF. At, a meeting of St. David’s * A. F. M., on Wednesday While Attempting to Alight From : ^ r .. , Wagon a Load From a Shot-Gun is ; ing officers were elected for the Lodged in His Breast.—The Ac- next week will be I en T 8U ”'^ year; - W. E. James, cident Occurred Near Ear- i \V orshlpful Master; J. L. ly’s Cross Roads. has re-1 Pairott, "junior V Warden'‘ R A man. named Player’s Keith Dargan, Secretary; H. 1 ; Mlller > accidentally | McHodge, Treasurer. The ap- near Early’s Misses Annie and Meta Wil- ffieS nStin^ 1 ' 1 be flUt ‘ d at ^ Wednesday morning liamson liave returned from a i December ,27" “St. John’s ' i g ' * 'j - r -- 1 er w ® 8 u visit to New York. ' Day’’, is always a great daj-l^ ,1<1Ier f nd was travelling r ^ ; among Masons and St. David’s throu Sh the country m company Mr. J. H. Mason, of Winston, i Lodge this PROF. T. E. HART. THE LEGISLATURE. An Friday of Christmas. Mr. C. B. Edwards moved to Mrs. M. E. residence. observing joyable. As “St. John’s Day j comes this year on Sunday, the I celebration will be held on the i i following day, Monday, the 28 ! inst. McCall & line Burch purposes N. C., was in town tlit.week ’’ visiting relatives and friends at this place. Rev. W. A. Guerry will con duct services in the Episcopal Chapel on Sunday eveningnext, | at 7.30 o’clock. Mr. Frank James, of Cheraw, has accepted a position as clerk at the Cheraw and Darlington Darlington depot. We were misinformed about the Sixteenth Century entertain- a nice ment. It is not to be a “ball”, cheap for Xmas, but merely a “party”. The Atlantic Coast Line will' extension of time. give excursion rates to Charles ton from all points on the road | druing the Christmas holidays. The subject for the meeting of the Y. M. C. A., on Sunday next at 3:15 p. M., is: “Sure Prosperity,” II Chronicles XIV, j February 20, 1892. but in spite I of the Governor's action the Mr. A. W. Welling has re- t * me * las ^ >een extended. Under moved into his new residence on t' 1 ' 3 statutes, the Comptroller Broad Street. It has just been! General Pan >. should he see fit, completed and is very hand-1 ex t e nd the time. On Tuesday some. class. Mr. as tutor and adjunct professor of natural philosophy and chem- _ - - istry at Furman University un- year. 1 he nature of* the son. The two men were riding til July, 1858. He was never a celebration has been left to the; j n a w n jjjji h , student there. He went to Eu- cornmittee on arrangements, ; 1 ■ i, , , , i rope soon after leaviner Eurman of Messrs ,T. 1..' ^ M» torrellod shot gun nii'l I f.LeSity al,,l speot illaHv Michie, R. Keith Dargan, C. just previous to the accident he J eight yeara in preparing'himself Alexander and J. A. Boyd, who!had killed a bird.. He madejtoteachmathematicsand chem- w ill see to it that the occasion! an attempt to discharge the is t ,- y* He was so thorough in is made most pleasant and en-, other load but the gun failed to! ® verythin ^ he ] undertook that b he was selected to correct the ‘ proof sheets of a new and ad- ” ' ien near the residence of! vanced work on mathematics, in preference to native students, Interesting Sketch of a Talented Darlingtonian. “J. J. L,” of Society Hill, furnishes the Nvws'and Courier with the following interesting sketch of Prof. Thos. E. Hart, who died recently in Charleston: L“Prof. Hart graduated second I in the class of 1854, the brave James | and gallant Jenkins being first, j i n the House of Representa-i “l 1 ®* dau 8 hte , r ” n " K ' h (;f i,:n„,j ,Col. Coward, the able efh- .. „ . ,. , her father under all circumstan- I cient superintendent of the Cit-i D ves ° n Tuesday of last week a ceg When even the dogs wore Cross | adel. and Capt Charles T. Has- • bill making Labor Day, the first* chased out of the nov'list’s kell, who was killed in battle on Monday in September, a legal study, Mamie was allowed to Morris Island, were also of this holiday was passed. This, how- sta y* The daughter is now a Hart was engaged nvnr wi il nnt. nffif-ini ^i es 'f ul ! Sfrown womaii, living quiet- 1 ly just outside of London, h or the first time since her father’s WHAT OUR LAWMAKERS DID DUR ING THE PAST WEEK. The Anti Free Pass Bill Passes the House.—The Senate and House Have to Agree on Certain Amendments Before it Goes to the Governor. In the House of Representa- DICKENS’ PET DAUGHTER. The Greai Novelist's Favorite “Mamie” to Write of Her Father. Pretty “Mamie” Dickens was already considered by those who knew Charles Dickens best to be the novelist's favorite daught er. To none of his children, perhaps, was Dickens more af fectionately attached, and the Mr. T E. Early, his companion went into a house to trade. In — . the meantime Mr. Miller at- are onering | tempted to get out of the wagon of glassware very in order to do some trading'also, and, while making the attempt, the gun which only u few min- i utes before had refused to fire discharged its entire contents in his right breast. His compan- ion on hearing the report of the Governor Tillman refused to ! gun repaired to the scene, where sign the joint resolution of the he found Mr. Miller lying on one Legislature extending the time side of the public road and ins for the payment of taxes until gun on the other. The wounded man was carried to a colored school house near axpaye Will Have Indulgence Some Time. Rev. A. H. Lester, who until recently had charge of the Meth odist Church at Cartersville, is quite sick with the grip in Co lumbia. , The street leading from Pearl Street to Broad, between the residences of J. J. Ward, Esq., and Mrs. A. M. Edwards, is being widened. Lynn Wilds, the old colored man who formerly carried the mails to and from the trains, has been again awarded the contract for the work. Rev. J. A. Rice did not preach in the Methodist Church Sunday ! lfhe doPR neither within that night. The Presbyterian Church time the bill becomes a law. was the only one in which ser vices were held that night. time. On | General Ellerbee exercised this j authority and notified the j county treasurers that the time ; had been extended, without penalty. A number of people were “on tiie anxious bench” in regard to the matter, but their minds may now be set at rest. The general concensus of opinion is that, even if the Comptroller General had not extended the time, the joint re- j solution calling for the exten sion would have become a law. I The Governor has a certain j number of days, while the Legislature is in session, in i which to sign or veto a hill anil by one of the professors of the great University of Heidelberg, where he took the degree of Ph 1). He was probably the first South Carolinian to receive this degree. An original mathemat in was ever, will not affect official sa and other legal contracts for' that day. The bill authorizing death, Miss Dickens has been county commissioners to require I persuaded to write of him whom inhabitants of towns of one thousand or more to work the streets of said towns was killed in the Senate on the same day. The first charter ever granted by the State to a farmers’ insu- sance company was granted by the Legislature to the Farmers’ Mutual, of Chester. On Wednesday of last week the bill furnish she knew so well. During 1892 there will be published in the i Ladies' Home Journal, of Phil- | adelphia, a series of articles by , Miss Dickens under the attract ive title of “My Father as 1 Re- jeall Him.” Fortunately for the thousands who will read what she writes in this series, Miss Dickens has a retentive memory, and she made copious notes dur ing her father’s DARLINGTON COUNTY. lifetime. She requiring railroads to I will tell in this series everything separate coaches for ■ she remembers of her father; white and colored passengers I how he educated his children; passed the Housei j his family life and his personal On Thursday the Senate pass-! habits; how he wrote his famous ical problem of Mr. Hart’s was I ed a bill providing for a home hooks: his love of flowers and thought so highly of by the Uni- for indigent ex-Confederates.: animals; how Christinas was versity that an appropriation; On Friday, however, the bill spent in the Dickens household; was made for its publication, was recommitted. In the House how the novelist romped with He returned to his native State on the same day, a bill to re- his children; the famous people soon after the close of the Con- quire a person to pass an exam- who came to the pickens home, stitutiona! war thoroughly, pre- ination before a State medical and his last years and closing pared to teach and soon found j board before he could be li- days. No articles ever published employment at Furman Univer-; censed to practice medicine was have in them so much promise sity, afterwards at a Kentucky passed. This is merely a re-1 of telling the world things which by and given all the attention ] college at Russellville, and then ! establishment of the old system \ it has never known of Dickens, at the South Carolina University | instead of the present county and Miss Dickens’ story of her boards. j father’s life will be eagerly The joint resolution calling a | looked for in thousands of homes constitutional convention occu-1 where the name of Dickens is pied the attention of the House! like a household word, on Friday. It has not passed j the slightest degree his great that body yet, but h::s already | intellectual acquirements. He passed the Senate. The bill to I died as he had lived a Christian prohibit State officers and mem- ; gentleman.” ! bers of the Legislature accept-j •*- —- j ing free passes on the railroads Do you want a suit, a pair of passed the House on Saturday. possible. The accident occurred about nine o’clock and Mr. Mil-1 Columbia. Overwork while ler died about two hours later. | at Heidelberg gradually told on I he corunor held an inquestJ his nervaus system, and at last that afternoon and the verdict made him a physical wreck, of the jury was that the deceased ! without impairing, however, in came to his death by accidental ly killing himself. Mr. Miller was about thirty- five years old and leaves a wife and two children. His remains were sent to his home in Ker shaw, Lancaster County, for in-1 slices, a hat, or NEWS OF ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. What Our Neighbors Are Doing And Saying.- A Brief Resume of the Week. ASHLAND. —Those who sowed oats early have tine stands. Mr. W. L. Smith, of Kelly- town, is dangerously ill with fever. —Mr. Vance Henckle, of Len oir N. C., spent part of last week in Ashland trading in stock. —Mr. Howard, the teacher of vocal music, lias just finished instructing a class at Savanna Chapel. —Mr. T. J. Prince, professor of penmanship at the Bishop- ville High School, is teaching a class at Pleasant Grove. —Mr. Wesley Moore has erect ed a neat building on his “Gat ling place” about half a mile west of Ashland. The building boom continues. j n j Fifth Judicial Circuit, B. L. terment. Apples, oranges, nuts, cand ies, raisins, etc, for the Holidays, at Blackwell Bros. WHO WAS IT? A Prominent Gentleman Would Enter tain Only Anti-Tillman Delegates at the Recent Conference. a bargain? well Bros. If Gen. W. E. James attended the annual meetingof the Grand Lodge of Ancient Free Masons of South Carolina, which was held in Charleston last week. The “grip” has reached Dar- lington on its annual visit and has found many victims among our people. In fact almost ev erybody is suffering, more or less, from it. The up passenger train on the C. & D. railroad ran over and killed a cow, belonging to Jack Williamson, colored, on Satur day night, near Mr. G. M Mc- Cown’s place. The recently elected deacons of the Presbyterian Church were installed last Sunday. The new elders will be ordained on Sun- dav next, immediately after the morning services. Mr. R. R. Wood, who has been in business with Mr. J H. Early for some time past, will return to his former home in Columbia about January 1 and will re sume business there. The News has received an invitation to attend the annual joint contest between the Clari- osophic and Euphradian So cieties of the South Carolina College, to be held on the 22 inst. Mr. E. G. Orrell has resigned the agency of the Southern Ex press Company at this place. The position has been offered Mr. L. M. Norment but he has not decided yet whether he will accept. The people of- Darlington are beginning to appreciate the fact that as good work is done at The News job office as can be obtained in Charleston or Col umbia and are patronizing it liberally. “Montana Charlie” gave his exhibition on Saturday. He failed to show any great skill with the rifle. On Saturday night he sent up apaper balloon ed — 1 The Sumter Advance contains , Sweet Florida oranges; 25 to j the following: “A prominent § ro ™. ^ tl3a 35 cts per dozen, at Blackwell j gentleman in one of our neigh Bros. South, in South Carolina during boring towns, (name can be fur- 1 t | ie ! )ast year—and a gratify ing ■ •- — nished if necessary),at the meet- showing it is: will GO TO EUROPE. i il g 0 f a certain conference held I . J’ mancial report aid pre- 0l)en ! siding elders, $‘14,980.50; pastors Dr. W. J. Garner To Take Postgradu- | ate Courses in Medicine at Univer sities In Germany and Austria. Dr. W. J. Garner will leave! about the first of the new year I for Europe, where he will take patgn, a postgraduate course in gener- could sleep under the same roof al medicine and special instruc-' with him. l\o one, he thought, Consumption Cured. An old physician, retired from practice, having had placed in his hands by an East India mis sionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy adies cloak'at This bill had already passed the and permanent cure of Con go to Black-) Senate, but the two bodies differ sumption. Bronchitis, Catarrh, i on certain amendments and thev ; Asthma and all Throat and Lung will have to agree before the Affectiou8 > als0 a positive and SOUTH CAROLINA methodiots. bill goes to the Governor. On radical cure of Nervous Debility the same day a bill was intro- ! and a11 Nervous Complaints, af- Fmanciai Condition and Growth of the qneed into the House providing i t ,er having tested its wonderful Church During the Past Yea;-. f or a revision of the registration ; curative powers in thousands of The following reports, submit- ! lists of Darlington County. cases, has fe't it lus duty to ted to the annual Conference On Friday the bill providing make it known to his suffering ! just closed at Derlington. show that notes and like papers ma-j*V Uows - Actuated by this mo tile financial condition and turing on Sunday or a legal hoi-! tive and a desire to relieve hu- E Church, iday should be considered ma-1 n l aa suffenng, I wdl send free tured on the day following pass- 1 of charge, to all who desire it. ed the House. The bill convert- this recipe, in German, French ing the bridge over the Pee Dee ()r English, with full directions at Cheraw into a free bridge j f°r preparing and using. Sent passed the Senate on the same | b i' mail by addressing with The Senate committee on | stamp, naming this paper. W. A. Noyes, 820 1'owers’ Block, w a s nerfectlv i an d assistants, $108,323.99, in- day. i he Senate comimtte innnvnnmBer crease $135.41; bishops’ fund.; incorporations reported fav many numon *1 ia. hlv the hill tn ume,,,! vora- on the bill to amend the for- charter of the town of Lamar. to seek a new field. in that place, declared in meeting” that he willing to entertain»uy iiumuei i * „ i. of delegates, but they must i n(, 3-37,_ increase^. 1.10; confer-, y stand an examination as to their | e ! lc0 c.aimants, $8,833.8 q standing during the last cam- \ e, £ n missions, .1 430.4-5, in- as none But straightoui8 lcreas « .f 9 ?’ 2 - 2 !’ d ' ime8tlc ^is- 'sions, $10,482.44; church exten-J ~ i u sion, $3,199.92, increase $31*2.80; Two of Darlin * ton s tion in diseases of the eyo, ear. could be conscientious in preach-; c ducat,on - | 2 ’ 952 o:d l ,ul,llcatl ‘ ,n nose and throat. The Doctor! ing the Gospel and vote for a ™l ri ^ 8 ’ other objects.; will take a three mouth’s course ( blasphemer like Tillman. This 8,1 increase .,8,.. 7.35, in Berlin and nine months in ) caused a good deal of a sensa- nr, . Vienna, at the end of which tion, but he obtained twelve eli- 1 . ncr ? a ^. e Darlington and time he will return to Darling- gibie ton to resume the practice of Board his profession. He will prob ably be accompanied during his Red rust proof oats at McCall stay in Europe by Dr. E. J. & Burch s at 05 cts per bu. Rochester, N. Y. Kind Words From Bennettsville. The Bennettsville Batiner, of ) last week, says: “A large num- Young Men Will j her of Marlboro Methodists vis- Remove to Roanoke, Va., Where ' ited Darlington and the Confor- They Will Engage in Business. | <‘nce during the past week. ,, o ci tv , i t i i Everyone is loud in praise Messrs. 8. b. Burch and John | fl ,„ „„h„. - D. Baird have decided to leav will seek their e applicants for his ‘bed and l>v Sunday schools for missions, fortunes in the rapidly develop- i itg f u]1 ' ca pac •d’ and is perfectly happy.” expended for Sunday ing section of Western 3 irgima. tention ' id rT school literature, $8,8(>4.b3, in-1 The city m which they will; ^ __ _ _ Goak on I c .*,.1 i— , i. cl. • i. • TT_ guesis. Wannamaker, w h o several years ago was employed in Dr. Boyd’s drug store. Dr. Garner is a promising young physician and this opportunity of finish ing his studies at such cele brated universities will be of great benefit to him. See McCall & Burch’s bargain and remnant counter for Xmas. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR. Failure to Hold the Next Meeting Will Cause the Suspension of the Local Council. We are requested by Mr. I. Lewenthal, Commander of Coun cil No. 799, American Legion of Honor, to state that the next meeting of the Council will be held on Thursday night, the 24 inst. The election of officers for the ensuing year will be held i )e en erected on the site of the and other important business ; one destroyed in January last, transacted. Should this meet- 'f i ier() j s no clue to the origin of ing fail to materialize, thenum- t i ie ffre. her of such failures allowed by — the constitution will have been the c., s. & N. railroad. reached, and the Council will] therefore be suspended. On Two of the Passenger Trains Taken this account it is earnestly re- Off.—Freight Trains Now Carry at- WORK OF THE FLAMES. Tiie Barn of Messrs J. C. and H. M. Willcox For the Second Time De stroyed by Fire. The barn on Messrs J. C. and H. M. Willcox’s place, about four miles from town, was de stroyed by lire just before day ! on Friday morning last. In the building at the time were four bales of cotton, a lot of cotton seed, 38 bushels of peas, 265 , bushels of corn, besides other storage matter and a number of farming implements and all of these the flames destroyed. The loss was about $1,100, but in surance covered $750 of it. This is the second time during the present year that these gentle men have lost their barn by ffre, the building just burned having crease $305 80. Grand total for all purposes, $273,407.51. Statistical r e p o r t—Local preachers, 152, white members, 09,131, increase 2,258: baptism, infants 2,281, adults 1,778, in crease 258; Sunday schools, 680, increase 7; officers and teachers, 4,709; pupils, 38,725, increase 103; church buildings, 061, in crease 11; parsonages, 148, in crease 3. Value of church property— Church buildings, $817,088.50, increase $39,148.50. Parsonages, $215,540.75. Value of other church property, $137,340, in crease $11,904.50. Grand total, $1,170,575.25. young men regret to have them leave, they all wish them every —...— success in their new venture. McCall & Burch are offering j Mrs. N. A. Huggins, Mrs. their entire line of gents and, Burch's mother, will also remove boys’ clothing at cost for cash to Roanoke, for next 30 days. is loud in praise of I the cultured hospitality of the X e | electric-lighted city of the Pee : ” r Dee. Every house was taxed to capacity, and every at- to the town’s iiwy win ! „ uests make their new home is Roanoke j ° and they will remove there about the middle of January. They will engage in the merchandise brokerage and insurance busi ness, under the firm name of 1 Burch & Baird. Mr. Burch will retire on Jan uary 1 from his present position , T . XT as a member of the firm of Ed-j a . ewark, x . . i . i wards, Norment & Co. and as various physicians .and took its bookkeeper. He has sold his numberless preparations recom- interest in tlui business to the mended as sure cures, remaining members of the firm. Mr. Baird is at present a clerk , „ ,, lt , , in the same establishment. ■ fi nad y .C amo South, and while While the many friends of these dere tned new remedies, said to ' 1 always cure malaria, and it still Malaria and Broken-Down Constitution Waycross, Ga. Dr. W. H. Whitehead: Dear Sir—At your request I I w ill state my case. Some years ago I contracted malaria in its S most violent form while living J. I consulted but it stuck to me like a brother—or more like a mother-in-law. I which appeared to be much en joyed by the crowd of colored spectators. Important notices concerning meetings of the Darlington County Fanners’ Alliance and Cak Ridge Institute. This well known institution ! lias just closed the most pros perous year, during which time , the enrollment has been over SHOT HIM ON SIGHT. 300 students. The new building has just received the finishing | ^“ w u " 8 ^ Mother*of 'Mr"'wTh | stuck to me, and you know tin I broken-down condition I w*as in ! when I came to your P. P. P. | (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and j Potassium), and I improved rap- i idly, and am to-day in as good ! health as I ever was—in fact I better. Asaremedyforabrok- a Brother of Mr. w. H. Gilliland Killed erdown constitution it has no by the Town Marshal of Easley. | equal. Yours, etc., Mr. Langdon T. Gilliland was T.’, 1 ^ CoTTLE ' shot and killed in Easley, Pick- DARLINGTON cotton market ens County, by the town mar- shal on Wednesday of last week. For the Week Ending Wednesday, De- quested that every member tend. ^ ^ A BUSINESS CHANGE. The Firm of Dissolved Haynsworth & Boyd by Mutual Consent. Passengers. The early morning train fori taken off the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad, leaving tt .u o, But one passenger train daily! Messrs Haynsworth & Bojd, each way T1 8 time for th ,.. who have been couduc g e j eav j n g 0 f t], p northbound pas- 1 v^uumy x* tn uu3i n Aiiiouw I furniture business in Dai J, genger has been rhamred frorr of the stockholders of the Dar- ton for seme years past, ha^e lissolved their copartnership ful illustrated pamphlet descrip tive of the school. The Darlington Guards, recent meeting of Gilliland, who for several years' clerked in a drug store at this place. The following is tiie ac count of the killing given by the Easley correspondent of the ~r. H. Gr n cember 16. Good Middling, Middling, 0! ■ Strict Low Middling, 05 Low Middling, 6} Parallels Mutable. Prof. S. C. Chandler read be fore the Boston Scientific Socie ty, of Boston, Mass., recently, an analysis of observations showing that the j^irallels of lington Farmers’ Alliance Com pany are published in this issue. Both meetings will be held on Friday, January 1. At a meeting of the State Bar Association, in Columbia, on Wednesday night of last week, J. E. Nettles, Esq.., was elected a member of the general coun cil and C. S. Nettles, Esq., a member of the local council. G. W. Brown, Esq., is a member of the reception committee. by"mutual consent,* Mr. Boyd selling his interest in the store to Mr. Haynsworth. The latter will continue the business at the present stand, where he will be glad to see his friends and customers. Mr. Boyd pur poses travelling in the interests of several large furniture houses. « #»---«*• If your boy needs a toy wag on go to Blackwell Bros. touches and the school will move into it for the first time on January 0th, the opening of the spring term. Send to Mes <uv/iuiug iu. srs ' A ’ ^ Holt Oak Charleston and the night train ^ • p ' ^ or tbeir beauti- ^tate': “W. H. Green, town mar- for Bennettsville have been fal illustrated pamplilet descrip- 8 hal of this place, shot and killed i Langdon 1. Gilliland about 5 i o’clock this afternoon. A few nights ago Gilliland cut Green At a recent meeting of the; ia the face with a knife, when „ Darlington Guards the follow- intoxicated. Green at the time latitude, which were commonly senger has been changed from; ing noncommissioned officers was trying to persuade Gilliland | supposed to be fixed lines, are a. M. to 11:42 a. M. The were appointed: B. F. William-. to go home. Bad blood has ex- really mutable. In general Pro- southbound passenger leaves at | son, First Sergeant; M. T. Lide, isted between them since. Green'fessor Chandler’s discovery is at the same time in the after- SecondSergeant and P S. Wilds, was informed that Gilliland had that the pole of the earth re- noon as heretofore, namely, Third Sergeant. Tho Adjutant threatened to kill him on sight, volves about a circumference, 5:29 o’clock. and Inspector General has is- ( They met at Bruce & Co’s drug with about thirty feet radius, in The freight trains on this road sued commissions to Messrs. S. store, wimn Green drew his pis- 427 days. This discovery, it is S. Burch and R. E. James who; tol and snot him near the heart, claimed, accounts for many of wero some weeks ago elected Gilliland expired in a few min- the discrepancies in astronomic- First and Second Lieutenants j utes. Gilliland was a son of Dr. al observations which have been R. J. Gilliland, a prominent and bothering astronomers for near- STATE NEWS. Gathered From Our Exchanges, And Put in Paragraphs. The next annual meeting of the State Bar Association will be held in Charleston on April 3, 1892. A gold medal was awarded the State of South Carolina for her magnificent exhibit at the Augusta Exposition. Mr. Nathaniel Heyward, one of the oldest and most highly respected citizens of the State, died in Columbia on the 11 inst. A Alliance publishing house is to he established in Columbia, for the publication of the Colton 1'lant and other Alliance litera ture. An Inter-Collegiate Confer ence of representative students from the Youg Men’s Christian Association of all the colleges in South Carolina will be held in Columbia, December 18-20. At the recent meeting of tho State Bar Association the fol lowing officers were elected: President, S. P. Hamilton; Vice Presidents, First Judicial Cir- mt. elon. euit, James Simons; Second —Mr. M. A. Witherspoon is! Judicial Circuit, Robert building an addition to his resi- ; Aldrich; Third Judicial donee. ! Circuit, J. F. Rhame; Fourth Messrs Fields Bros, are | Jud * c ial Circuit, J. M. Johnson; meeting with great success ginning. —Tiie Baptist Church has purchased a lot of five acres ad joining the parsonage. —We trust that the approach ing Christmas will be a happy one to all and that there will not he the usual shooting and cut ting scrapes on that day. —There was no preaching at this place on Sunday as Rev. Mr. Gresham had an appoint ment to institute a Baptist Church at Lamar on that day. —There is great need in this section of a law in regard to geese and turkeys wandering over people’s fields. They are just as destructive to fall crops as hogs. Trial Justice Josey says numerous complaints have been made to him on this sub ject, but that there is no law to cover the case. CYPRESS. —It is reported that there will he several marriages at Cypress this week, with more to follow soon. —Miss M. Hill, of Timmons- ville. is spending some time with relatives and friends at this place. Despite the hard times and low prices for cotton a great deal of building is going on in this section. —Several farmers in this sec tion are sowing wheat. They speak of reducing the acreage in cotton next year. —Ephraim Slater, a colored man, lost his horse last week. While travelling along the road it stumbled and fell, breaking one of its legs, and in conse quence it had to be killed. —All of our young men who are off at college will spend Christmas at home. Mr. C. W. Harris has returned from Mt. Pleasant. N. C., where he has been attending school. He is now very sick with measles. —Mrs. Marie Stuart died at her home near this place on Wednesday of last week. She was a very highly respected lady and had always been a consistent member of the Meth- odist Church. She leaves several sons and daughters to mourn her loss. A quire of paper and a pack age of envelopes, real Irish lin en, for 15cts atthe bookstore. Ot » REDEEMING STAMPED ENVELOPES. The Government Will Redeem Stamped Envelopes or Wrappers Which Have Been Misdirected and Thus Rendered Useless. [New York Trib’.ne.] It is not generally known that the United States post office au thorities will redeem stamped wrappers or envelopes which have been misdirected and so made useless. Such is the case, however, arid the clerk who lias this business in charge at the general post office in this city takes back thousands of dollars’ worth of them every year. His best customers are large Bank ing houses and other concerns which keep numbers of envel opes on hand, already address ed to particular customers. The customer dies, moves away, fails or transfers his account or business to a rival firm, and all the envelopes addressed to him are useless and would be a dead loss if Uncle Sam were not will- to redeem them. This has riow carry passengers. The following is tiie schedule of these trains: The freight going south arrives at Darlington at 8:45 a. respectively. M. and leaves 9:45 a. m., and the freight going north arrives at Darlington at 10:55 a. m. and leaves at 12.01 r. m. The Reynolds shoe will last you 12 months; buy it of Black- well Bros. | highly respected citizen of this ! ly 200 years. Mr ^Chandler place. Green at once went to states that his conclusions have the court house and surrendered! been verified by observations in himself to the sheriff.” 1 England, France and America. leu to attempts at fraud. Some times the postage stamp on an envelope that comes through the post office is missed by the cancelling stamp, and then by tearing the cancellation mark off the mutilated envelope with uncancelled stamp, has been offered for redemption. Envel opes will not be redeemed, though, unless they are whole and unmutilated. Neither will the redemption be made in money, but always in postage stamps. Abney; Sixth Judicial Circuit, J. F. Hart; Seventh Judicial Cir cuit, J. F. J. Caldwell; Eighth Judicial Circuit. M. F. Ansel; Secretary, John P. Thowas, Jr., of Columbia; Treasurer, J. Marshall. At a meeting of trie directors of the State Alliance Exchange he'd in Columbia on Friday last matters pertaining to the re moval of the Exchange to that city in January next were dis cussed and acted upon. The most important matter was the election of Col. D. P. Duncan as manager of the Exchange. He was elected in place of it. L. Donaldson, who has held the position ever sincethe Exchange was organized. When it was decided last summer to remove the Exchange to Columbia Mr. Donaldson handed in his resig nation, saying he could not give up his other business to remove there. The Secretary of the Treasury has submitted his estimates of appropriations for tiie fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, to Con gress. Amom: the items are the following of interest for South Carolina: For the con struction of the dry dock at Port Royal, tiie sum of $150,000 additional is asked for; for the the completion of custom house building at Charleston $50,000 is asked; for improvement of Lumber river, North and South Carolina, $20,000; Beaufort riv er, completion, $12,500; Clark river, $2,600; Congaree river, continuing improvement, $2,500; Edisto river, $7,385; Great Pee Dee river, $30,000; Little Pee Dee river, $20,000; Mingo creek, $7,500; Santee river, $200,000; Waccamaw river, North and South Carolina, $30,000; Wap- poo Cut, $45,000, and Wateree river, $0,500. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 edits per box. For sale at Willcox & Co’s drug store. The Effect of Discipline. [Kate Field's Washington.] “Just see how the chickens mind the old hen, Robby?” said Mrs. Norris to her son. “Watch them run to her when she calls them.” I suppose she sat on them when they were little,” remark ed the infant phenomenon, re flectively. Full of Business. [Cleveland Voice.] “What’s the matter with you two fellows?” said a patrolman to two tramps. “Why don’t you wash yourselves?” We's too busy,” explained one. “Busy at what?” “Scourin’ the country,” said the other with a broad grin. • • ■■■■■• She Questioned His Truthfulness. [Grip.] He—“I love you.” She—“How do you know?” He—“I feel it in my heart!” She—“But you told me a min ute ago that you had lost your heart!” He—“I—I—I ” She—“Don’t try to excuse yourself. You have clearly shown yourself a liar, and with a liar I’ll have nothing to do. Good-night.” piREDITOKS’ NOTICE All per- sons indebted to the estate of Dr, IV. A. Flayer, deceased, will make payment immediately; and all jiersons having claims against said estate will esent them, properly proved, to ELMA PLAYER, Executrix. December 15,1891. :|pr< l